We discuss the state of the podcast and potential issues with our brand alignment.

Georgia and Ohio deny our public information requests. We cancel Cesar Chavez. We take back the streets in the dead of night.

DON'T LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST !!! THEY ARE TRUTH-BOMBING OUR GOON-CAVE !!!

Lucas leads a vocal warmup. We talk about kinetic energy, plus some recent high profile traffic deaths. KE Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xasDujRNQz7i9SPggqpBzWxI-_fshKqVO8SxeAlWlNk/edit?usp=sharing

We talk language in media when someone crushes a child with their car.

Just a morally reprehensible episode all around

We touch on site updates to https://transit.observer and the FTA deleting 25 years of transit data from the National Transit Database ---

We have our first guest: John Perry of Transiting Los Angeles (insta, YT @transitingLA) ---

We talk to John about Los Angeles and its BONES, its former streetcar networks, histories of urban development, as well of the social and institutional forces which led to the "Bussy-fication" of the city of angels ---

Support the homie: https://transitinglosangeles.com/ https://www.patreon.com/cw/transitinglosangeles

https://www.youtube.com/@TransitingLA ---

There's a song about gooning if you make it to the end.

We talk about structural racism for 75 minutes. --- Traffic deaths on streets named MLK: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i1NLhxySSQ22bd-GBJOquQ95WvliPUAJEorE87I-Jto/edit?usp=sharing --- Mapping Inequality redlining: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining --- Driving Jim Crow: https://www.technologystories.org/driving-jim-crow/ --- https://www.ce.washington.edu/files/pdfs/about/Highway-to-inequity.pdf

New Illinois crash map! https://roadway.report/illinois --- Two, count'em TWO bus crashes!!! --- Ben gets us banned from denver --- Data on SCOOTER PERSECUTION by THE FACISTS here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CAdDWpUpRAVfZE-03rph4kGMgdKTx3FwznrmKgY1Gxw/edit?usp=sharing --- This is our first partially MUSICAL episode - and I suspect it won't be our last

OH YEAH!